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Dr. wonderful

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In holland, it okay to have sex in the Park but it cn't any where public, meaning you have to go near the woods.
 

Fetzenfisch

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria had an anchor tatooed on her arm.

Seafish can live in mammal blood.
 

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Gigaguy64 said:
Did you know?....

You will swallow an average of 8 Spiders while you sleep during 1 year?
Not true it was made up by a girl as an experiment in human gullability.

OT: You dont see anything in your lifetime. You see what your brain can interprit from the light reflecting off something.
 

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In B.C (the province next to me) it is/was legal to shoot Natives, as long as your on a horse drawn carriage. That was a dark day...
 

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Muramasa89 said:
OT: The Great Wall Of China cannot be seen from the Moon. Nothing can, hardly even the continents of the Earth. Originally it was the GWOC can only be seen from space but cartoons and other stuff appeared to have misunderstood this, and spread a shit load of ignorance from it.

Speaking of which, space is only about 60 miles upwards.
And space smells like geraniums and Jeremy Clarkson can drive there in 23 minutes.
 

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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

The little girl in E.T was played by Drew Barrimore.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

..........I think thats enough from me.
 

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Did you know (and seriously, I'm not making this up):

In the UK the Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations (2006) says that it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don?t want him to know, though you don?t have to tell him anything you don?t mind him knowing.

How's that for a random fact.

Also, Tom Baker holds the record for being the longest serving on screen Doctor in Doctor Who, with Matt Smith being the youngest to play the part (a title Peter Davison held previously).

How's that for a nerdy fact.
 

Muramasa89

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Guest_Star said:
Muramasa89 said:
OT: The Great Wall Of China cannot be seen from the Moon. Nothing can, hardly even the continents of the Earth. Originally it was the GWOC can only be seen from space but cartoons and other stuff appeared to have misunderstood this, and spread a shit load of ignorance from it.

Speaking of which, space is only about 60 miles upwards.
And space smells like geraniums and Jeremy Clarkson can drive there in 23 minutes.
I was under the impression the Ozone Layer smelt like geraniums, rather than space itself. I don't doubt the Clarkson thing though.

sennius said:
Dolphins are the only animals besides humans that kill for fun.
I thought it was sex?
 

Dango

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Dolphins are the only animals besides humans that kill for fun.
 

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Daverson said:
Ren3004 said:
There is a protein called Sonic Hedgehog.
A chemical capable of inhibiting this protein has been named "Robotnik" ^^

The moon doesn't orbit the Earth, rather, they both orbit a fixed point between the two
While this is technically true the centre of rotation of the two masses (Barycenter) is actually well within the radius of the Earth's mass so its still pretty much the moon going around us! linkity to equation [http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q665.html]

The More You Know...


OT: The stuff about shooting a welsh/scotsman in the walls of such and such town is all bullshit for one simple reason - the codified Laws in the UK are very few, most of the 'laws' of the courts are governed by legal precedent set in the High Court. I don't *think* their is a written law about murder in the UK, but you are damn sure going to jail for it if you shoot a scotmans full of arrows in York after dark or whatever!
 

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Gigaguy64 said:
MeXR said:
Gigaguy64 said:
Did you know?....

You will swallow an average of 8 Spiders while you sleep during 1 year?
Are you kidding me?...
Nope.
Now your not gonna unknowingly swallow a Huge Spider.
But you can and will swallow smaller Spiders without noticing.
You know why I'm scared? because minutes after reading that I saw spider im my bathroom and the batchroom is right next to my room.
Better fetch my broom.
 

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Muramasa89 said:
Guest_Star said:
Muramasa89 said:
OT: The Great Wall Of China cannot be seen from the Moon. Nothing can, hardly even the continents of the Earth. Originally it was the GWOC can only be seen from space but cartoons and other stuff appeared to have misunderstood this, and spread a shit load of ignorance from it.

Speaking of which, space is only about 60 miles upwards.
And space smells like geraniums and Jeremy Clarkson can drive there in 23 minutes.
I was under the impression the Ozone Layer smelt like geraniums, rather than space itself. I don't doubt the Clarkson thing though.
Yeah, it's prolly just the ozone layer.


Richard the Lionheart, tho born in England, never learned to speak English and during his ten year reign he spent only 6 months in England in total.
 

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Aylaine said:
Sex on the beach can be dangerous at night.
Personal Experience?

OT: The Camel Spider isn't actually in the Arachnid family (also see this picture of a camel spider bite I found)

 

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I heard that teddy bears kill more people then real bears but i'm not sure if i believe it.
and that dolphins can make their own toys by making air bubbles in shape of rings.
OMG facts ftw
 

Furious Styles

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AMMO Kid said:
The Camel Spider isn't actually in the Arachnid family
It is an arachnid, it isn't a spider. It's a solfugid (may have misspelt) and is in the arachnid order.

Also, only one species of solfugid may be poisonous, although this is disputed. All others are absolutely poison free.

They also rarely attack anything larger than themselves, do not leap into the air and do not disembowel camels (as the urban legend goes)
 

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Celtic_Kerr said:
- If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

- President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Great ones! :)
 

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The myth that carrots help you see in the dark was started by the British to stop the Germans finding out about RADAR during the war

elephants can't jump, and are the only animal that has been taught to fence
 

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I believe the intended and not entirely complete fact, in its complete form now, is that water is precisely as effective as shaving foam in moisturising your face and wetting the hair.